I know, my God, that you test the heart and that you are pleased with what is right. I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to you.
Deuteronomy 30:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised and you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and all your soul by doing everything I am commanding you today, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And shall return to the Lord your God and obey His voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your [mind and] heart and with all your being, American Standard Version (1901) and shalt return unto Jehovah thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; Common English Bible and you must return to the LORD your God, obeying his voice, in line with all that I’m commanding you right now—you and your children—with all your mind and with all your being. Catholic Public Domain Version and when you will have returned to him, so as to obey his commandments, just as I have instructed you this day, with your sons, with your whole heart and with your whole soul, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul: |
I know, my God, that you test the heart and that you are pleased with what is right. I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to you.
Then the people rejoiced because of their leaders’ willingness to give, for they had given to the Lord wholeheartedly. King David also rejoiced greatly.
for when you return to the Lord, your brothers and your sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful; he will not turn his face away from you if you return to him.’
But if you return to me and carefully observe my commands, even though your exiles were banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I chose to have my name dwell.’
You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.
Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to me with all her heart #– #only in pretence.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.
Perhaps when the house of Judah hears about all the disaster I am planning to bring on them, each one of them will turn from his evil way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.’
Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbour malicious thoughts?
Even if he causes suffering, he will show compassion according to the abundance of his faithful love.
Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive, how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did, their detestable actions of every kind.
Afterwards, the people of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come with awe to the Lord and to his goodness in the last days.
‘But when they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors #– #their unfaithfulness that they practised against me, and how they acted with hostility towards me,
‘Then I will pour out a spirit , of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at me whom they pierced. They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for him as one weeps for a firstborn.
do not listen to that prophet’s words or to that dreamer. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.